Pictorial Style vase decorated with sphinxes and griffins. Mycenaean, 1300-1200 BC. From Tomb 48, Enkomi, Cyprus Lidded jar decorated with sphinxes, goats and floral motifs. From Achna, Cyprus. About 600-500 BC
Pictorial Style vase decorated with sphinxes and griffins. Mycenaean, 1300-1200 BC. From Tomb 48, Enkomi, Cyprus Lidded jar decorated with sphinxes, goats and floral motifs. From Achna, Cyprus. About 600-500 BC
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They are probably correct, these guys are experts in their field — I mean, they’re not exactly Cretans!
I remember seeing a gold treasure trove (can’t remember thename they gave it) from Afhanistan in the Museum one time. Lots of gold figurines and such.
The kicker was the funny story that was replayed about how the gold arrived in England.
The story goes like this: An English adventurer with a name like Capt. Smedley Duncan-Phyfe was traveling through a most dangerous part of Afghanistan at night when he came upon a camp of robbers. They had attached and tied up a group of merchants and were torturing them for their gold and jewels.
Capt. Smedley Duncan-Phyfe charged into the camp with his trusty Webley .44 revolver and routed the beggars. In return for saving them, the merchants voluntarily gave all their godl and jewels to the good Capt. Now who was the thief again?
